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...final Senate vote, they gathered around television sets, and Reporter-Researchers Betty Satterwhite Sutter and Robert Burger, who checked the cover story, tallied the totals ballot by ballot. Senior Writer George Church, who wrote the story, was impressed by President Reagan's ability to turn the tide that had seemed to be running so strongly against him. "If I'd bet on the outcome, I would have lost," he says. "You should never underestimate the persuasive power of the President, or of the number of people who will go along with him just because he is the President...
...help he had given them in their elections. With the Democrats, Reagan tended to emphasize the need for bipartisanship in foreign policy. Despite Democratic Leader Robert Byrd's strong speech against the sale a week before the vote, the Administration's vote counters felt that the tide had turned in their favor, though most polls showed opponents ahead...
Columnists, lobbyists and bureaucrats were all trying to describe an unprecedented juggernaut of pressure and persuasion mounted by that ruthless old movie actor in the White House against the AWACS tide. Anchormen furrowed once, twice and even three times over the new force they found to be unleashed in the capital. But something was missing in this spectacle. Those commenting failed to note that in this kind of struggle, a President almost always has ways and means to win. Some are subtle; some...
Harvard, this year's Homecoming opponent. has played the Indians five times in this century and never in Williamsburg. One sorority's parade float was entitled "Southern Comfort Drowns the Crimson Tide" until fine-tuned by a Northern transplant...
...washed up on our shores," Piore said there is no such thing as a good or bad immigration program. The problem, he said, lies in the perceptions of the issue, adding, "if we conceived of the refugees as real human beings, we wouldn't pursue this 'push back the tide' Reagan program...